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Classroom Activity

This problem focuses on the MMACS flight controller. Students learn about one of his/her duties in monitoring the Auxiliary Power Units of the space shuttle. Students will apply various calculus concepts including an application of related rates. The focus is on interpretation of the derivative as a rate of change.

Students will

analyze graphs to determine the rate of change at specific points; and

use the chain rule to determine the rate of change of two or more variables that are changing with respect to time.